Yellow Dot Shop

Artistic expression, playful greetings, good books.
These are things that make life fun!

Yellow Dot Shop is owned and operated by Ellen Hamilton in Alexandria, Virginia. Ellen sells items that she prints, makes or buys, online and at markets and events. Yellow Dot Shop carries greeting cards, scarves, hats, printed shirts and hoodies, purses and bags, original prints, history books, note pads, ornaments and more.

Yellow Dot Shop can be found at Markets in Alexandria and Northern Virginia. Locations and events are posted at yellowdotshop.com.

Ellen wrote the book, "A Scottish Migration to Alexandria." which is presently sold out. In 2025 she completed the documentary film on the same topic. It is 25 minutes long, and was produced and narrated by Ellen. It can be bought as DVD or Blu Ray disc in the Shop.

 Visit https://www.patreon.com/c/YellowDot to see the film online for a small fee.

You can sign up to receive Ellen's monthly email newsletter at the bottom of the home page at yellowdotshop.com. See where she will be next on the home page under Markets and Events, or in the footer of this website.

About Ellen

Ellen's background is the arts. She has a bachelor of fine art from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an associates degree in Graphic Design from Northern Virginia Community College. After years of working as graphic designer, she opened her design studio, Yellow Dot Designs in 2007. Her book and film project began in the mid 2010s and took over seven years. She started Yellow Dot Shop in 2018 with her cards, books and vinyl records, her Scottish film t-shirt, and a few shirts from another maker. She decided to produce her own t-shirts, so started doing some very basic screen printing, which she had learned at University. Soon she had shirts and hoodies printed with her illustrations on the topic of Alexandria and local areas. In 2025 she found a book on watercolor painting, and returned to painting. Now the Shop carries her art, shirts and much more.